CLARK3 - from the edges tongues grow

“Don’t you lie awake at night wishing that Philip K Dick had written music to accompany his vision of dystopia? All that time he was working in a music store and we only get books... Well luckily, Mr. Boris Hauf has supplied us with the next best thing: The great anti-anti-utopia is here.”
– Mark McLaren

CLARK is a unity of three interactive levels: metaphysical, transient and phenomenological. It started in 2005 as a solo CD project commissioned for London label Sijis and was re-released on vinyl in 2016 on Shameless Records. CLARK2 came out on double LP in 2020 also on Shameless and was also featured in the short film called "Island Destinity" (by Hetzer/Kaufmann/Hauf) in 2021. CLARK3, released 2024, is digital only.

Thematically CLARK fantasizes about extraterrestrial pasts, examines our earthly present (‘digital natives’, climate-collapse, a world of automation in which we voluntarily give up control to avoid work) and imagines a futuristic interstellar co-existence.

The synth-based beat-oriented science fiction space adventure juxtaposes disassembled post-industrial minimal technoid music with modernist contemporary experimentation. It plays with processual repetition, the imagined and calculated potential of iteration, disintegration, delay and modulation.

CLARK3 is produced AI free and with artistic support by Max McCormick.